fossemale



. J. H. GRANIER & A. P. .POSS'EMALE.

Manufacture of Gloves.

No. 229,819. Patented July 13, I880.

N-PEIERS, PHOTQLITHOGRAPNER, WASHINGTON D c UN TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULES H. GBANIER AND AIME F. FOSSEMALE, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 229,819, dated July 13, 1880.

Application filed November 17. 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J ULEs HIPOLYTE GRANIER and AIME FRANgoIs FossEMALE, both of Paris, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Mann facture of Gloves; and we do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description bf the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a partof this specification.

The gloves made according to our new method or pattern present an elegance and finish of appearance surpassing any others known to us. This elegance is attained in part by avoiding any side ,seam, such as is usually made along the small finger, and instead thereof so cutting the leather as not only to locate or bring the main seam which unites the two edges of the part composing the body or hand part of the glove at the middle of the back of the hand, where it may be entirely concealed by the middle one of the ornamental lines of stitching usual upon the backs of gloves, but also to end the lower terminus of such central back seam at the point or place where such middle line of stitching usually terminates; and our invention further consists in applying to a glove so cut and sewed a wrist-piece, as hereinafter described, which,

when applied, has no back seam, thus presenting to the eye an entire glove, wrist-piece and all, having no visible lengthwise seam in the body' of the glove.

In the accompanying drawings we have illustrated a glove embodying our invention.

Figure 1 is a back View of a finished glove, and Fig. 2 represents a piece of leather laid "out flat and cut to the proper shape to form the glove.

- The two edges at, Fig. 2, are united by a seam, which forms the center line of the base of the glove. (See a b, Fig. 1.) Then the piece 11 e d, cut substantially as shown, with an upward tongue or projection, 1), adapted to reach up to the lower end of the back seam when the edges a b are united, is sewed around the rear end of the glove, its edges 0 and d, Fig. 2, being of course left open. This piece, which forms in a certain sense a wrist-baud, gives not only a very attractive appearance to the entire glove, but serves at the same time to receive the buttons and button-holes on its edges 0 and d, Fig. 2.

We do not claim, broadly, a glove havinga seam at the back instead of at the side, as such gloves have been made but we are not aware of any gloves having been made in which the sides of the blank were cut away at their wrist end, as shown and described by us, so that when these sidesare united by a back seam, the ordinary ornamental back stitching would conceal entirely such back-unitin g seam. Therefore We claim- Aglove made as shown and describedthat is, from the blank out of the pattern shown in Fig. 2, and having the lower part of its two sides cut away to form the lower terminus of the uniting back seam at a point above the lower edge of the wrist-piece, where the usual ornamental back stitching ends, and with the wrist-piece 0 b 11 applied thereto, as shown, the part 1) connecting with the body of the glove at the point where the back seam ends.

In witness whereof we have hereunto put our hands this 3d day of November, 1879, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

J ULES HIPOLYTE GRANIER. AIME FRANQOIS FOSSEMALE.

Witnesses FAGES, ROBERT M. HOOPER. 

